East Midlands English

Natalie Braber; Jonnie Robinson

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

East Midlands English

Natalie Braber and Jonnie Robinson

Volume 15 in the series Dialects of English [DOE]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502354

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About this book

This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region.

A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers.

Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes.

Author information

Natalie Braber, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom; Jonathan Robinson, British Library, United Kingdom

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Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	I
Contents Accessible Download PDF	V
List of Figures Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	IX
List of Tables Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	X
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	XI
Map of the East Midlands Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	XII
1. Geography, demography, and cultural factors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
2. Phonetics and phonology Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	20
3. Morphology and syntax Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	76
4. Lexis Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	111
5. Annotated transcripts Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	145
6. Annotated bibliography and references Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	168
Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	181

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists; Sociolinguists; Dialectologists; Oral Historians
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 186
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Tables: 10
Keywords: East Midlands; Language Variation; Sociolinguistics; Dialectology

eBook

Published: July 23, 2018
ISBN: 9781501502354

Hardcover

Published: July 23, 2018
ISBN: 9781501510724